Essays about: "impoliteness"
Showing result 6 - 8 of 8 essays containing the word impoliteness.
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6. Impoliteness in language and gesture: a cross-cultural study of impolite behaviour in Russian and Swedish
University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapAbstract : Impoliteness has been considered as a marginal phenomenon for scientific research for some time, although as a type of behaviour it has always been around us. The field of impoliteness studies is currently growing, but there are clear gaps in the research that concerns the conventionality of expressions, different semiotic systems through which impoliteness is expressed and cross-cultural comparisons. READ MORE
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7. Don’t Shoot the Multicommunicating Messenger!
University essay from Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologiAbstract : The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between multicommunicating (MC), the Big Five personality traits, social connectedness (SCS), and media multiplexity within an interpersonal context. To this date, little is known about the construct of MC within the interpersonal context, therefore this mixed methods research presents data that aims to improve our understanding of multicommunication, a communicative practice which entails being engaged in two or more conversations by using nearly synchronous media. READ MORE
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8. The power of insults : A study of condescending linguistic strategies in four English online discussion forums
University essay from Institutionen för humanioraAbstract : The aim of this study is to investigate how language is used, online, in a condescending way in order to make the recipient feel belittled. The research questions sought to find out what kind of linguistic strategies are used online in order to make language function in a derogatory way as well as the linguistic reactions these strategies evoke in the recipients. READ MORE
